Tennessee will introduce Rick Barnes as its next coach at a news conference Tuesday afternoon, according to multiple reports. Barnes will replace Donnie Tyndall, who was fired Friday after just one season in Knoxville amid an NCAA investigation into his previous two-year tenure at Southern Mississippi.

The hiring of Barnes is further proof that SEC schools are adhering to conference commissioner Mike Slive's pleas to place a greater emphasis on basketball. The league is unlikely to be Kentucky, Florida and everyone else for very much longer given some of the coaches recently brought in to compete with John Calipari and Billy Donovan.

Mullin is a huge risk for St. John's simply because he has never coached at any level, nor does he have any experience recruiting. He has worked as an ESPN analyst and in the front offices of the Sacramento Kings and Golden State Warriors since his playing career ended in 2001.

The lack of coaching and recruiting experience makes it imperative that Mullin hires a staff that can bolster him in those two areas.

The upside to hiring Mullin is his NBA ties and storied history at St. John's provide a built-in sales pitch both to alumni, donors and recruits.

Like the Buffalo Bills teams that made four straight Super Bowls without winning one or the Atlanta Braves teams that perennially reached the playoffs but captured only one championship, Arizona coach Sean Miller wishes all his fans could see the bigger picture.

Miller has resurrected a program in transition post-Lute Olson by amassing a 283-99 record in Tucson and leading the Wildcats to three Elite Eights in the past five years, yet he still occasionally endures criticism for not ending Arizona's 14-year Final Four drought.

The notion that Arizona's 2014-15 season wasn't a success is one Miller addressed on Twitter late Sunday night. The Wildcats won 34 games, swept the Pac-12 regular season and tournament titles and tallied three NCAA tournament wins, but again their season ended in Elite Eight heartbreak, this time at the hands of top-seeded Wisconsin on Saturday night.

The centerpiece of the campus celebration after Michigan State secured an improbable Final Four bid was something you probably wouldn't expect.

Bagels. Yes, bagels.

Hundreds of Michigan State students gathered at East Lansing's Cedar Village and began throwing bagels into the air after the seventh-seeded Spartans defeated fourth-seeded Louisville in overtime on Sunday afternoon. Video of the airborne bagels spread quickly via social media, prompting a handful of bemused tweets from authority figures.

The flying bagels were the most memorable part of a campus celebration that also included sweatshirts and couches set ablaze. Police eventually dispersed the crowds and reportedly arrested at least a handful of revelers, some of who were handcuffed and led away.

Myles Turner, Rivals.com's No. 9 recruit in the class of 2014, announced Monday via a self-made YouTube video that he is leaving Texas and entering the NBA draft. The freshman forward averaged 10.1 points, 6.5 boards and 2.6 blocks in his lone season with the Longhorns.

“My name is Myles Turner, UT alum, and I’ve decided to forgo my education and submit my name to the 2015 NBA draft,” Turner said in the video. “I love the university, I love the atmosphere here, great education, great people, great basketball program, facilities and it’s given me everything I need to succeed.”

Texas fans probably will have mixed feelings looking back at Turner's lone season in Austin.

Credit Wisconsin for its season-long brilliance and Michigan State for peaking in March, but the idea that the NCAA tournament proves the Big Ten was underrated doesn't hold up under scrutiny.

What having two Final Four teams does do for the Big Ten is give it better odds of ending its national title drought. The Big Ten has been one of the nation's strongest leagues more often than not over the past 15 years, but the last Big Ten team to win a championship was Michigan State in 2000.

If Kentucky is going to become college basketball's first unbeaten national champion in nearly four decades, the Wildcats will have to emerge from a heavyweight Final Four field.

They'll be joined in Indianapolis by fellow No. 1 seeds Wisconsin and Duke and an underdog Michigan State team that has a few too many Final Four appearances in recent years to be labeled a Cinderella.

Duke's victory over Gonzaga ensured that the Final Four will have three No. 1 seeds for only the second time this century and the fifth time since the NCAA tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1986. The 2008 Final Four remains the only one that featured all four No. 1 seeds.

The winner of the Kentucky-Wisconsin game will face either Duke or Michigan State, two programs that have combined for 12 Final Four appearances since 1999. The Blue Devils defeated the Spartans 81-71 in Indianapolis back in November behind 19 points from Quinn Cook and 17 from Jahlil Okafor, but Michigan State is a stronger team today than it was then.

The battle between two of March's most successful coaches was in the hands of one of the most unlikely players on the floor.

Fouled on a put-back attempt by Michigan State's Marvin Clark with 4.9 seconds remaining and his team trailing by one, Louisville center Mangok Mathiang had the chance to send the Cardinals to the Final Four by making two free throws.

When Dave Leitao left DePaul for Virginia in April 2005, he tried to soften the blow by insisting "DePaul will always have a special place in my heart."

Apparently the feeling was mutual.

DePaul announced Sunday it has hired Leitao to fill the vacancy created when the school parted ways with Oliver Purnell earlier this month. It's a surprising choice considering the Blue Demons reportedly had been targeting promising up-and-comers like Bryce Drew of Valparaiso and Bobby Hurley of Buffalo.

The appeal of Leitao is that he's the last coach to enjoy any semblance of success with the Blue Demons.

In three seasons at DePaul from 2002 to 2005, Leitao went 58-34, won a Conference USA title and took the Blue Demons to two NITs and an NCAA tournament. Leitao enjoyed some success on the recruiting trail too, plucking Delonte Holland from the junior college ranks and winning a recruiting battle with Michigan State, Indiana and Ohio State to land future pro Wilson Chandler.

The challenge Leitao faces at DePaul now is also considerably tougher than it was during his first stint a decade ago.